International Court of Justice

News about International Court of Justice, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.

Chronology of Coverage

Feb. 4, 2015

International Court of Justice at The Hague rules neither Croatia nor Serbia committed genocide against each other's peoples when they were at war during breakup of Yugoslavia in early 1990s. MORE

Dec. 28, 2014

Tony de Brum, foreign minister of Marshall Islands, has brought case against the eight nuclear powers of the world and Israel to International Court of Justice as first step in establishing convention to ban such weapons; tiny nation in the Pacific Ocean was site of 67 powerful nuclear tests conducted by United States in 1950s. MORE

Apr. 19, 2014

Japan says that it wants to resume its research whaling in Southern Ocean in 2015 under redesigned program that will address objections raised by International Court of Justice; move is likely to bring renewed international criticism. MORE

Apr. 1, 2014

Decision by International Court of Justice in The Hague to ban Japan's annual whaling drive off Antarctica is a hard-won victory for conservationists who long argued that country's whaling research was a cover for commercial whaling; ruling halts program that has captured more than 10,000 minke and other whales in the Southern Ocean since 1988. MORE

Nov. 20, 2012

International Court of Justice in The Hague gives Nicaragua control of large area of Caribbean Sea that had long been part of territorial waters of Colombia; but rules that group of seven tiny islands sought by Nicaragua should remain in control of Colombia. MORE

Jul. 21, 2012

International Court of Justice orders Senegal to prosecute Chad's former president Hissene Habre, who has lived comfortably in Senegal since 1990, despite indictments in connection with political killings and a host of other brutalities; decision, which could affect exiled leaders in other countries, finds that Senegal breached the 1984 Conventional Against Torture by ignoring charges against Habre. MORE

Mar. 13, 2012

International judges in The Hague are hearing a complex case to decide which country has the right to try Hissene Habre, former president of Chad, who has been indicted in both Senegal and Belgium in connection with political killings, torture and other brutalities. MORE

Feb. 4, 2012

International Court of Justice in The Hague confirms that Germany has legal immunity from being sued in foreign courts by victims of Nazi atrocities. MORE

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The International Court of Justice in the Hague, the United Nations’ highest court, granted Honduras sovereignty over four Caribbean islands in its decades-old dispute with Nicaragua, and carved up rich fishing grounds and offshore exploration...

The recent ruling by the United Nations' highest court that found fault with Serbia under the Genocide Convention complicates Serbia's diplomatic rehabilitation, several legal experts said. They said the decision by the International Court of...

Photos of tablet in cemetery in Potocari, Bosnia, commemorating victims of 1995 massacre at Srebrenica, and of Muslim girl visiting grave of relative; International Court of Justice will rule Feb 26 on whether Serbia committed genocide in Bosnia...